[3.11] Budget Ice Spear Inquisitor - 3mil Shaper DPS

Build: https://pastebin.com/B8azP3dy
Actual character: https://pastebin.com/L3SGrXJS

Character stats:
- 3.2 million Shaper DPS with flasks, charges, and debuffs up
- 4900 life (500 regen per second), 1400 ES (200 regen per second)
- Capped ES and life leech
- 32% attack block, 7% spell block
- 44% chaos resistance with flasks up

These are just provided for reference, feel free to take certain nodes earlier/later if you find you need them at a different time. Levelling before 50 is basically a straight line.

Lv50: http://poeurl.com/cXG0
Lv70: http://poeurl.com/cXGZ
Lv90: http://poeurl.com/cXGY

- Ascendancy order is Sanctuary > Pious Path > Righteous Providence > Augury of Pentinence.
- You can help Alira and then change to two passives later, or just kill all for the two passives from the start.
- Pantheons are up to your preference.

Note: Since we have ES leech from Heart of Ice, as well as ES regen from Pious Path, we can actually use ES as a consistent part of our EHP pool.

Weapon:

An incredible weapon for its price. +2 to level of cold spells, a good chunk of %damage, cast speed, and "enemies frozen by you take increased damage" (which is multiplicative against modifiers to damage we deal, and thus very strong). You should be able to buy this 6-linked for a fairly small sum (45c at time of writing), but a 5-link will do in early endgame if you can't afford it. I'm sure there's some crazy rare staff that outperforms this, but Taryn's worked fine for me.

Note that since all the stats on Taryn's are global, you could get your 5/6 link in your body armour instead, if you luck into a good body armour before you farm enough currency for a linked Taryn's.

Helmet:

A rare is fine. Life and resistances are the most important, and an ES base is preferable. If you can afford it, get one with the "Chance to gain a Power Charge on Critical Strike with Ice Spear" enchantment (cheaper) or "Ice Spear fires an additional Projectile" enchantment (more expensive).

Body:

Once again, a rare is fine. Don't worry about links, since we're getting our 6-link in our weapon. The ideal is an ES base with the Temple of Atzoatl flat + percent life mod, along with some resists and other useful mods.

Gloves:

Another rare. You still want life and resists, but I recommend an ES/armour base for either your gloves or helmet to make it easier to roll red sockets. If you can afford it, get a pair with the Temple of Atzoatl "Increased damage with hits against chilled enemies" mod. Enchantment doesn't matter, you're fine even without an enchant.

Boots:

Voidwalker effectively gives us 5 pierces if we've killed recently, which is crucial for clearing in tight spaces where Ice Spear hits mobs before it can transition to its second form. Plus it gives a hefty chunk of DEX, as well as phasing. A good DEX roll is the most important. A high ES/evasion roll is nice but not necessary. For enchants, you have a variety of options - various flat added damages, penetration, life leech, and so on. I rolled "increased mana regeneration rate if you've cast a spell recently", which helps to sustain mana, but other enchants should work fine.

Rings:

Rares with life and resistances. Energy shield and an open prefix to craft flat damage is nice to have as well. You'll probably need a little DEX on these to use your gems.

Amulet:

The 40% less critical strike chance is offset by Ice Spear's innate high crit chance in second form. The critical strike multiplier roll is the only one that matters. Prodigal Perfection is a solid anoint that also happens to be within the range of our Brutal Restraint.

Belt:

A Stygian Vise is best because we can make good use of the Abyssal jewel socket it grants, but a regular rare belt is fine. Once again, we want life, resistances, and ES.

Flasks:

No surprises here, I hope. Since Pious Path makes our consecrated ground grant elemental ailment immunity, we don't need an anti-freeze flask. Anti-bleed is still important though, and anti-poison and anti-curse are always good to have. If you are struggling to sustain mana, you can replace the Granite flask with a mana flask.

Jewels:

There are tons of mods that work for our build, just try to find something useful.

Entirely optional but a good boost boost if you can roll a good one. The jewel socket above Templar start hits 8 notables, and a decent number of the notable options on Brutal Restraint are useful (aura effect, projectile/elemental damage, life, etc). Plus, the small nodes give DEX, which helps with gem requirements. Mine granted a total of 40% projectile damage, 25% global critical strike chance, and 10% increased effect of non-curse auras.

Ice Spear 6L

Drop Hypothermia if you only have a 5-link and Spell Echo if you only have a 4-link. Arcane Surge and Inspiration help us manage the high mana cost of this setup - we're spending 66 mana per cast at around 3 casts per second.

Spectres 5L

Because I really needed something to put in my body armour. Jeweler's Touch prophecy was 1c when I decided to do this, and the 20/20 Raise Spectre wasn't much more than that. I raised one Carnage Chieftain and one Host Chieftain for Power and Frenzy charges. If you have the Ice Spear power charge on critical helmet enchant you can trade the Host Chieftain for something else.

Alternatively, you could just use Storm Brand/Increased Critical Strikes/Power Charge on Critical to generate power charges if you don't have the power charge on crit enchant.

CwDT 4L

A basic defensive Cast when Damage Taken setup. I found level 11 CwDT triggered consistently enough to feel good. You can drop Increased Duration if you don't have enough sockets.

Frost Bomb 3L

Note that Frost Bomb's pulses do not hit - the only hit is the explosion at the end. This makes applying Frostbite a bit tricky, but just the Exposure from Frost Bomb is already a decent damage boost. If you find Frost Bomb too fiddly to use, and don't care about the "enemies have reduced life/ES regeneration rate", you can swap to a level 1 Wave of Conviction instead.

Flame Dash 2L

You cast Flame Dash to move. What more can I say? If you have empty sockets, a Second Wind support would be helpful.

Misc gems

Our two mana reservation skills and Portal. Portal is entirely optional but convenient.

General levelling advice:

I started with Freezing Pulse until I got Ice Spear at level 12. Then I asked a friend to buy me a Lesser Multiple Projectiles, and it turns out Ice Spear/LMP/Arcane Surge is a pretty decent 3-link for levelling. Just equip the other gems as you unlock them during the story. If you can't get an LMP early on, you can level with Freezing Pulse/Added Cold/Arcane Surge until Act 3, where you can buy LMP from Siosa.

Weapon-wise, dual wand or wand/shield is easier than using a staff from the get-go. Dual wand is ideal but you can use wand/shield if you're having trouble getting defensive stats. If you use wands, hold off on taking staff-specific passives until you get your Taryn's Shiver.

You may want to buy an Atziri's Foible for levelling if you can afford one. The massive quantity of mana and mana regen helps you sustain Ice Spear early on, and the reduced attribute requirements is also nice.

Stats to look out for on gear:

Just life and resistances on armour and jewelry is good enough, as well as any attributes you may need to equip gear (likely DEX). As usual, try to get 300-400 life per Act, and cap elemental resistances from Act 5/6 onward. Remember to use your crafting bench as needed to fill in modifiers.

Stats to look out for on weapons include +1 level of cold spell gems, %spell damage, %cold damage, flat added damage to spells (particularly cold), %cast speed, %spell critical chance, and global critical multiplier.